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11. (S) (LTTAMIL-9} was a CIA penetration
(Embassy. Unfortunately, his identity was indirectly and
inadvertently released in 1993 and, as a result,

(identified in true name as a CIA agent i ins John Newman's BOOK
(Oswald and the CIA} As of 1993, @ITAM ae L-9}was still alive and

living in Mexico City with family infCub@. To date, the ARRB

Board has agreed to protect his identity and crypt and delay the
release of his 201 file until the Agency could make some
_judgments about the potential damage created by the release on
additional documents with his name/crypt in them. That will now
occur at the May meeting of the Board. It is, however,~unlikely
that the Board would agree to delay release until 2017 although
there is precedent for delaying release of records on individuals
for shorter periods or until death. .

Gibson, who presently lives in England, s/

a left wing journalist. who was ass associated with the Fair Play For
Cuba Committee (FPFCC), an “an entity to which Oswald wrote letters

and claiméd to be a member. Gibson did ‘not become an Agency _
inter. until after the ie assassination; 7 however, he had been of |

nterést to the FBI “when he headed the FPFCC. Unfortunately,

ombinaétion of previous releases led to press reports in
11994/1995. about his rélationship. ‘with the CIA. At that time, CIA
piticers. weré dispatched to advise him about the e possible
(compromise and promise him the avery. best attempt at protecting 7

the relationship. 7

thad determined ‘the full extent of the files on Gibson and the
‘potential damage. The issue is schéduled for ARRB action at the
May meeting and our objective is to rélease Gibson’ s role in the
UEK assassination ‘story while protecting his relationship with
{the Agency; however, the FBI has a four volume file which covers
pboth FBI interest. and Gibson’s relationship with the A fae ee
\will_be working in_detail_with the ARRB staff and.the FBI on this
approach.

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ISSUE 7 -- Certain Files of CIA Officials a

14. °(S) This is a major request encompassing Wo. the

office files of the individual occupying the following positions
during the period. 1959-1964.

e The Office of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
e General Charles Cabell, 1953-1962
e General Marshall Carter, 1962-1965
e The Office of the Deputy Director for Plans .
e Richard Bissell, 1958-1965 ; pes
; e Richard Helms, 1962-1965 _ 3
ol The chronological files of C. Tracy Barnes, 1959-1964 -
e Office of General Counsel, Lawrence Houston,’ 1959-1964
® Operational Diaries of William Harvey, 1962-1963.

This request will by its very breadth require significant time on
the part of the directorate (and DCI) IROs. While it may appear
overly broad, we have developed a methodology with the ARRB staff
which provides the access required by the Board but guarantees
that their review is focused. In sum, we work from shelf lists
to narrow the selection and then conduct file review sessions
with the ARRB staff; if material requested is particularly
sensitive, access can be limited to the ARRB Executive Director
or members of the Board. This effort will continue for some

‘time.

Conclusion

15. (AIUO) At the present time, 32 persons are involved in
the JFK records review and we anticipate that this level of
effort will increase to 37 by May and to 40 thereafter as we near
the statutory end of the Board (30 September 1998). However,
even if the Board is not extended (and it has been extended
previously), there are statutory tasks for CIA which will extend
12-18 months beyond the end of the Board’s existence. Your
continued support is critical.

Lee S. Strickland

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’ MEMORANDUM FOR: Lee S. Strickland @ DA
Fredrick C. Wickham @ DO
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Becky L. Rant @ DA
(Teresa Wilcox @ DST
(” MaryLou Cummings *;
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FROM: J. Barry Harrelson
JFK Project Officer
OFFICE: OIM/HRP
SUBJECT: ARRB Meeting 13 May 1998 -- Results
REFERENCE: Lotus note dated 8 May -- ARRB Meeting 12-13 May 1998

A The JFK Board addressed six Agency issues at the 13 May meeting. The Agency's proposals prevailed in four of the six issues
~ ee-ene-and one issue was tabled for further discussion. The Board made the following determinations:

1) Alias Documentation and Accommodation Addresses:
accepted our proposal to postpone release of specific information until 2017 and use generic substitute language.

2 LITAMAIL- a) (CIA penetration aft Cuban Embassy i in Mexica Citylconsidered a “key player" in the Oswald-Mexica
Gity story]: ~™

agreed to continue to protect the full-crypt and delay the release of additional documents {201 file} until his death.
They set an annual review date on the documents; the Agency will need to advise NARA annually on his status.

(3) ‘Richard Gibson { member of Fair Play for Cuba Committee during early 60 siconsidered a "key player in
5 Oswald's story/Agency asset beginning in 1965):

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; : agreed protect Gibson's relationship with the 1 Agency y and designated Agency and FBI files and documents
outside the JFK collection window, 1960-64, as NBRs (not believed relevant). ~
4) AMTRUNK Assets [AMTRUNK was an early 1960's anti-Cuban operation; most of the details of the operation
including crypts have been previously released]:

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agreed to. protect true name and 201 file numbers of assets Not previously released.
5) Mark Lane Item [extract from foreign document):

postponed until 4 June meeting; board would like have a member or its.staff confirm the existence of the
document and ensure that it contains no other JFK assassination related information.

6) Carlos Tepedino [CIA asset! key figure i in AMLASH-Cubela plot to kill Castroftrue name and role in story has
been publicly known for years}:

voted to release his name in the 1967 IG Report on Plots Against Castro and other JFK collection documents

Te sano issue was pulled from the agencd and will be addressed at the next meeting (4 June).

This was a very successful meeting from the Agency's perspective. The loss on Tepedina was not unexpected. Given what is
in the public domain, the Agency has not been able to make a persuasive argument to protect his name in the three years Tepedino has
been at issue. Thanks to all who assisted in preparing for the meeting, and especially t Steve Whi White nd(Piek Kir Kinsman Who prepared the

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been performed using only Agency personnel and with their full

knowledge.

Recommendation (27)

In accordance with its present guidelines, the CIA should not
again engage in the testing of drugs on unsuspecting persons.

‘Recommendation (28)

Testing of equipment for monitoring conservations should not
involve unsuspecting persons living within the United States.

B. Other Selected Activities of the Science and
Technology. Directorate

1. The Manufacture and Use of Documents

The Agency maintains a capability for producing and providing to
its agents and operatives a wide range of “alias” credentials. Most such
documents purport to be of foreign origin. Some, however, are docu-

- ments ordinarily issued by other branches of the U.S. government or -

by private United States businesses and organizations.

Amorig the United States “alias” documents furnished from time
to time to Agency personnel and operatives are Social Security cards,
bank cards, professional cards, club cards, alumni association cards
and library cards. The Agency has recently stopped producing alias
driver’s licenses, credit cards and birth certificates, unless needed in
a particularly sensitive operation and approved in advance by the
Deputy Director of Operations.

While the Ageney does not produce false United States passports,
it has in the past altered a few by the addition of entries to evidence
travel which had not actually occurred.

The purpose of alias documents is to facilitate cover during CIA
operations. These documents are not “backstopped,” i.e., manufac-
tured with the consent and knowledge of the company or organiza-
tion whose card ‘is being manufactured. They are useful only as flash
identification. Only the Social Security Administration has been told
that the Agency is manufacturing its cards.

The Commission found no evidence that any Agency employee has
ever used false documentation of this kind to his personal advantage.

Conclusions
Alias credentials are necessary to facilitate CIA covert. operations:
overseas, but the strict, ntrols and accountability must be main-
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Executive Director

VIA: Director of Information Management
FROM: | Lee S. Strickland
Chief, Information Review Group/OIM
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1. (AIUO) Per your request at our 1 April. bi-weekly

meeting, we have summarized below the significant issues which

are under deliberation and negotiation with the JFK Board. Our
approach on protecting Agency equities is multi-step:

e First, with the staff, we argue relevance although the statute and
implementing regulations define “assassination records” very
broadly as including

® any records related to the assassination or Oswald,

e any records concerning the various conspiracy theories, and

e any records within the scope of previous investigations
including the Church Committee, Pike Committee, Warren
or House Select Committee on Assassinations

Commission,
(HSCA) ,*

e Second, with the staff, we argue that release would cause current
damage although the exemptions under the JFK statute are much
narrower than the corresponding exemptions under the FOIA, and

e Third, if we fail to convince the staff, we must proceed to a more
detailed and formal presentation to the Board.

» (AIUO) It is the materials collected by the HSCA which are the most
numerous and often the most troublesome in terms of sensitive equities. They
are generally referred to as the “sequestered collection.”

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ISSUE 1 _-- Unacknowledged Covert Actions a
2. (S) Within records surfaced by the Ford Library isa
document -- a Helms Memorandum for the Record on a PFIAB meeting

-- which contains references to CIA Covert financial support fo
political parties in Peru, Greece, Italy and Brazil and to labor .
unions in France and Italy.’ ~~

3. (S) After much negotiation, the ARRB staff has agreed
to recommend to the Board that the information related to those
covert actions be considered non-related and the documents
designated “Not Believed Related” (NBR). The document willibe
grouped with similar “NBR” documents and be presented to the ©
Board for final action at the 13 April or 12 May meeting.

ISSUE 2 -- Alias Documentation and Accommodation Addresses

4. (S) The CIA security file of former Agency employee,
David Morales (deceased -- true name already released), within
the. sequestered collection contains documentation on five of his
alias.* We anticipate similar problems as we re-review. other
security files within the sequestered collection. We are
considering a compromise with the following elements:

e® protect all references to fofficial documents reflecting the alias

such as (Social security cards, drivers licénses, :

e release items designated as pocket litter such as club cards,

e protect elements of accommodation addresses to avoid identifying |
specific locations, and

e® lastly, make a decision to actually release or protect the alias
itself depending on the timeframe and its importance to the JFK
story.

5. (S) However, disagreements on the actual implementation
(e.g., protect house number but release street name of
accommodation address) have prevented a final resolution at this
2 (8) See Attachment 1.

3 (S) See Attachment 2.

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time.. We are also exploring with the Bo senior management”
whether the blanket release of pocket litter (whether (lawfully }

(ebtained or forged) might present media or operational issues

today. Accordingly, we have requested that the issue be
postponed until the May meeting.

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ISSUE 3 -- Organizational Materials

6. (S) This request (one of the earliest and. known as CIA-

1) asked for organization charts on various Agency directorates

and/or components for the years 1958-1968. All-.Agency 3
directorates provided material responsive to the request and the
ARRB staff has selected items for inclusion in the JFK
collection. Remaining at issue are three DO charts -- a 1961
generic DDP organization, a 1963 generic DDP organization, and a
detailed JMWAVE organization.’ The DO has agreed to release the
first two and remain adamantly opposed to the release of the
JMWAVE chart given its similarity to current organizational
plans.

7. (S) This issue will be presented by ARRB staff to the
Board at the 13 April meeting where they will recommend that the
DDP generic charts be accepted (good for CIA) and that the JMWAVE
chart be declared as an assassination record (bad for CIA); an
actual vote by the Board will not take place until the May
meeting. :

ISSUE 4 -- Mexico City Tapes

8. (S) This request asked for a thorough search of Agency
files and documents for and CIA “... surveillance ‘take’ from
Cuban and Soviet facilities in Mexico City at the time of the
Oswald visit and in the immediate wake of the assassination.”
Among the items provided by the DO were five boxes containing
audio tapes from telephone taps on the Cuban and Russian
embassies and facilities. A number of the tapes are dated

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22 November 1963; many others are dated 23 November 1963 through
December 1963.° :

9. (S) This is one of the most-complex requests because of
the following facts:

e at one time, there was a tape of Oswald in existence but it has
since been lost or erased;

e the relevance of these tapes is argued even though they do not
contain the Oswald conversation; *® te

aes was not an unilateral operation but rather a join

th the Mexican Government;

e there is a confidential request from the ARRBito the Mexican

for any (Copies of the actual’ Oswald conversation they
may possess; and, a

operation

e® quite obviously, the sensitivity is not so much the mere fact that
we possess such tapes but our release of the extent and actual
conversations captured.

10. (S) ° The good news, at least at this time, is that the
ARRB staff has agreed to postpone Board consideration until May
and, in the interim, the Agency will have an opportunity to
review (i.e., listen and transcribe) and determine the
sensitivity and provide. detailed arguments in this regard.

ISSUE 5 -- Protection of (LITAMIL-9 )

° (S) The scope of this request is quite significant; it includes five boxes

of 185 tapes from operations against both the Cuban and Russian Embassy.
é (S) The ARRB staff position on the relevance of the tapes has three forms:
There could be conversations about Oswald and/or the assassination on the

22 Nov + tapes which could give clues to Oswald’s visit to Mexico City on

25 September - 3 October. The absence of any conversation about Oswald or the
assassination would itself be of historical interest. Or, there are
transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations that mention the
assassination in the collection and, thus, by definition, the tapes are
assassination records.

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